politics 1900-1965 americans motherhood

books:

The Soviet Jewish Americans (The New Americans)
Annelise Orleck

Greenwood Press, 1999

This lively, moving narrative provides the first comprehensive account of the emigration of nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews to the United States between 1967 and 1997. By weaving a wide variety of immigrant voices and photographs together with historical, journalistic, social service, and psychological studies of Soviet Jewish immigration, this book offers a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the history, politics, and culture of this ...

Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty

3 reviews
Annelise Orleck

Beacon Press, 2006

Succeeds at Every Level
Ms. Orleck has written quite a book: it is important as history and social commentary, it is instructive for organizers and activists and it is a heart warming story of the beloved Ruby Duncan and her associates who faced adversity, poverty and discrimination with intelligence, resourcefulness and courage. They fought an uphill bsttle for human rights and economic justice in Las Vegas, and they ...

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (Gender & ...

1 review
Annelise Orleck

The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

a great book on a powerful topic
This book chronicles the lives of four working-class Jewish immigrant women from their common start as survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire through their careers as labor leaders. These women are absolutely astounding American heroes just waiting to be discovered. In addition to her awe-inspiring subject matter, Orleck also employes a readable and interesting writing style that is true to ...

The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right

Dartmouth, 1997

Perhaps the most deeply rooted stereotype of motherhood, editor Annelise Orleck writes, is "the notion that mothers are by definition apolitical, isolated with their children in a world of pure emotion, far removed from the welter of politics and social struggle." This collection of essays, interviews, and personal narratives challenges the image of a mutually absorbed madonna and child and explodes the myth that bearing and raising children ...